Fan*tas"tic (?), a. [F. fantastique, fr. Gr. able to represent, fr. to make visible. See Fancy.]
1.
Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
2.
Having the nature of a phantom; unreal.
Shak.
3.
Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.
4.
Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque.
There at the foot of yonder nodding beech,
That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high.
T. Gray.
Syn. -- Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; queer. See Fanciful.
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Fan*tas"tic, n.
A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop.
Milton.
Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all occasions to drow it out to be seen.
Fuller.
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